I am not sure what the story is on Ms. Lopez. She reminded me of some girls I knew from parochial school with, smart, uptight, and a little too tightly wound. But that said, even though I am far more of a fan of VDH, Goldberg, Geraghty, and York, I liked K-Lo. I liked her a lot. There was something charming about her nerdy earnstness, her adoration of all things Romney, her steadfast commitment to right to life issues. She was true to herself. I do not want this to read as an obituary, because it most certainly is not. K-Lo in DC may be an excellent new adventure and a new chapter in her life. She is a young woman and presumably wants to find some guy and start a family (unfortunately New York and DC are not necessarily the best places for that to happen) or (and am I crazy for even thinking this) she would make a great nun. And the teasing of the left just shows that K-Lo managed to get under their skin.

Last night, several women from church were over to discuss Noam Chomsky's fascinating speech last Friday. And, as it always does, the Corner on National Review came up. We decided that this poor Kathryn Jean must be a self-loathing minority who is nothing more than window dressing for the white males who run National Review. Conchata interrupted her dusting to agree with us. If that's not absolute moral authority, then what is?

I stopped reading NRO about a couple years ago, not sure why. I used to like it when Jonah Goldberg was kind of helming the show, and then it got all down in the dumps Krikorian and Derbyshire. I dunno, they are always so grumpy! I know it's their schtick, but still....it's grumpy!

(Also, they do lame arts stuff and movie reviews and all that. Why isn't their a good conservative journal that is arty arty arty, or, I mean, why can't they write about art well? I mean, not just, why isn't art good like it used to be in the old days, but stuff that people actually make now, that is good. Point it out! I want more art!)

I used to visit The Corner a lot, some good contributors and a nice variety of topics. In the last several years I've gone less and less, primarially because I don't care for the style personified by Ramesh Ponnuru, which I don't care for even when I agree with it.

Yeah, I know. Ramesh Ponnuru always confuses me...like, even when I agree with him, I'm all like: why did you put it like that? But of course, we can all see here that language is not my forte...that's why I want more pictures (art) in the mags, thanks.

I like K-Lo too, but thought she was a drag on The Corner. Fred4Pres comes close to how I felt about her writing there. That group lost their sparkle around election time for me. It used to be a daily "must read" for me but I haven't been there in months. Though maybe that's just a reflection of my feeling of being lost as to who to read now on the conservative/libertarian side of things.

The jerk knew what "honcho" means; he was just waxing pedantic (at first) about K-Lo using it as a verb. Naturally he went on to ruin the joke-- to the extent that so wan a joke can be ruined-- by coming up with a substitute guess that's not a verb either.

I don't think K-Lo is LEAVING. She said she was following in Goldberg's steps and moving to DC ... I'm guessing she's taking a less demanding NRO job so she can work on a book.... her own "Liberal Fascism" if you will... after all, webeditor is probably a thankless job......

Another problem with the poor insinuation is that if you take into account 'el bulgo' of the average latin macho where the derogative “hincho” comes from, a female “honcho” doesn’t translate into much of anything resembling that reality.

In short, instead of coming off edgy, the K Lo critic showed a great deal of ignorance.

Thanks, I admire, and like, even, the New Criterion, but sometimes I feel like it is 'smothering' to read, it's like going to the Boston MFA and looking at beautiful things, and coming out an hour later sneezing at the dust. Still. It's really, really good.

I am probably dating myself, but honcho is, IIRC, a Korean or perhaps Japanese term for "boss." During the Korean war there was an organization called KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the US Army) and many American soldiers picked up some of the Korean words. TBogg apparently doesnt know a lot, and secure in his/her ignorance was incapable of using google.

Really? Ponnuru is actually one of my favourite writers there. His writing is bland and unexciting, but he's generally sober and thoughtful -- moreso at least than most of his fellow NRO contributors.

Too thoughtful, its like he's always trying to do a damn masters thesis on why murder is wrong.

Plus he was one of the folks at NRO that trashed the entire republican field for all sorts on reasons, many miniscule, and gave life to the last man standing John McCain, whom they had already written off. Of course they didn't like him either and the whole well "he sucks less than the other guy" general election angle didn't generate much enthusiasm.

I am probably dating myself, but honcho is, IIRC, a Korean or perhaps Japanese term for "boss." During the Korean war there was an organization called KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the US Army) and many American soldiers picked up some of the Korean words.

Count me as one who has never been particularly impressed by K-Lo’s writing or argumentation skills. Having said that, it was a another piece of evidence in what Aaron pointed out earlier about liberal white males and their sexual frustration in regards to conservative women, Granted, K-Lo is not remotely sexy, but Micelle Malkin is, and if you read further on TBogg (who is he/she, anyway?), you will get an idea of how TBogg and the commenters feel about conservative women of color. The racist and sexist comments about Malkin are just vile.

Note to onparkstreet: if you don’t like New Criterion you might try “Commentary.” It’s not about art, per se, but Terry Teachout nearly always has a music review, they often have articles about art, and in nearly every issue there is a short story. There is also “Touchstone” magazine. It’s from the C.S. Lewis branch of Christianity, if you are okay with that. Most of it is religious in nature, but they often have additional articles on art as it relates to religion. A warning: relatively little is accessible online; they want you to subscribe to the paper copy. If you want more pictures, you are almost certainly going to have more words accompanying them.

Lem and Hoosier Daddy, absolutely agree on Babylon 5. B5 is one of the most seriously underrated shows of the last 25 years. It had a grittiness and texture to it that Star Trek usually lacked. In fact, I think B5 pushed DS-9 to be a lot better; the writers for DS-9 knew they had real competition.

The whore Kathryn Jean should praise Allah (PBUH) that she does not need to disgrace her family by working with her head uncovered before men to whom she is not related. It is a blessing from Allah (PBUH) that she will be able to be unemployed in Washington, D.C.

K-Lo is the very earnest chick in high school who was always editor of the yearbook or some such. You don't want to totally blow her off because the earnestness is kind of cute, in a beaten puppy sort of way, and there's always the chance she might grow up to be hot.

Or as the Bloodhound Gang sang "You're pretty when I'm drunk and I'm pretty f**king drunk".

I for one will not miss K-LO that much. I liked her Catholic voice over there but that was about it.

I don't think they realized how their actions during the Republican primary and other events were driving readers away. The attacks on other conservatives for instance that were not named Romney were horrible. K-Lo was personally leading the attack on Huckabee months after the race had ended.

I have always wondered if the Club for Growth has an arrangement with her.

Her conduct during the immigration battles was not stellar or well thought out. She apparently thought there was need to bring in a immigration reform supporting pundit to counter Mark Krikorian.

Why National Review has to decided to associate with the radical poltics of Krikorian I don't know.

So maybe Rich can balance it out. I still go the Corner each day but I could deal with a few less Crusades against people in the GOP over there

I read the Corner frequently, and K-Lo is my least favorite commenter. It's usually a strain to listen to the arguments of someone with a religious or quasi-religious belief in their subject. So often their belief is founded on faith and their appeals to reason seem (and I think often are) disingenuous. Derbyshire caused quite a stir over there by saying something similar about Ramesh's book. Of course, I could say much the same about many commenters on gay marriage, global warming, feminism.

The Corner is a pretty lively place and K-Lo has been the editor, so I assume she deserves a good deal of credit. She may actually do better (and more for her cause) in a position that does not require her to make arguments to the public.

"She apparently thought there was need to bring in a immigration reform supporting pundit to counter Mark Krikorian"

I agree with Krikorian, but it's good to have a contrary view to sharpen up his arguments. Nadler seemed to be arguing from mostly a libertarian viewpoint, and the conservatives vs. the libertarians is always an interesting debate that improves both sides for having been done.

I got the impression that K-Lo was more diligent and earnest than talented or interesting.

Okay, I regret my silliness and stupid comments above, but let them stand! Actions have consequences - I will not self-delete my comment.

1. I like NRO, but some alchemy is missing, I don't know what it is, it used to be better in the past.2. K-Lo was fine for me, neutral but nice and sweet.3. I dunno what I meant by the silly art comments, maybe just that sometimes I want conservatives to stop complaining about culture, but create it, vigorously. Which, I suppose they do...look at some genre fiction, for example.4. Roger Scruton has a beautiful essay on art and beauty in City-Journal right now, so of course there are conservative journals that deal well with art and culture, what was I thinking?5. Thanks for the suggestions, above, and for taking my silliness seriously.

OK, I'll be fair to TBogg. If all he's complaining about is using "honcho" as a verb, he is guilty only of ignorance or, perhaps, first degree prescriptivism. In English, we can verb almost any dang noun we want, the only test being whether we are understood, which test Ms. Lopez flying colored.